Can you name the biggest non-U.S. based retailers in the year 2008?

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Biggest Non-U.S. Retailers (2008) Quiz

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Published: December 5th, 2008
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	James:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 14:07 GMT	6 points
	very very hard!! i only got 4! im from uk so got them 3 and got metro by mistake!!

	Annie1:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 14:18 GMT	2 points
	I got three, only because I've spent a lot of time in France. Super hard!

	titaniferous:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 15:01 GMT	4 points
	No IKEA? Really? As an American that surprises me; they're the most visibly foreign retailer I can think of here, having seen them in TX, NY/NJ, and (of all places) Moscow. And agreed that this one's crazy hard. I only knew 79,976 and 50,010.

	chodanutz:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 15:28 GMT	2 points
	i've never heard of any of these. I guess i need to travel more

	Rackie:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 15:39 GMT	2 points
	Yeah, I was surprised IKEA wasn't on this list.

	rahv:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 15:45 GMT	2 points
	just wanted to mention that i think that "Schwarz Unternehmens" is a wrong name. the retailers official name is "Schwarz Beteiligungs GmbH", usually it is referred to as "Schwarz Gruppe" (in english: "Schwarz group" because it was founded by Dieter Schwarz). the word "unternehmens" isn't even a real word in german ("unternehmen" would be the right word but it's not part of the official name of the retailer).

	rahv:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 15:55 GMT	1 point
	@J: wikipedia lists IKEA with a revenue 28.800 mil. $ with would be easily enough to make it into the list. however, i am not sure if "revenue" is the same as "retail salees" and my dictionary is a bit unclear on that, too ... maybe someone else can shed some light on the issue?

	Bethannie:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 16:10 GMT	0 points
	Ugggh! I managed 7...got the 3 top German, plus 3 English and one Australian (by mistake!)...tough quiz

	gopaladins:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 17:28 GMT	1 point
	i'm an american. when i was in china, carrefour was EVERYWHERE. no wonder it's the top of the list. i'm not an economist. can anyone tell me why these non-US brands can be found everywhere BUT the US? does that reflect well on the US or poorly?

	Uhlan:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 17:43 GMT	1 point
	Those German ones are very difficult. I got 8 in total.

	Lindsay:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 17:44 GMT	1 point
	According to the source linked, IKEA is listed with $21,231 in retail sales, which means it would come in at #21 and just miss this list.

	davidr:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 20:15 GMT	0 points
	@gopaladins: I don't think it reflects either well or badly on the US. Globalization is a fairly recent phenomenon and I'd guess that, by the time retailers started thinking internationally, the US already had enough large companies that it was hard for anyone else to break into that market. Brands like Carrefour and Tesco have made aggressive international expansions but, as far as I'm aware, most of the answers on this list are found only in a small number of countries. Essentially, this quiz boils down to `name the biggest few retailers in each of these countries'.

	rahv:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 22:07 GMT	1 point
	@lindsay: thanks, completely missed the link :) @gopaladins: it seems to be kind of a continental thing. most of the european ones are found in a lot of european countries (and in asia sometimes) while most of the u.s.-retailers are also found in other north- or southamerican countries (and in asia, again). and what davidr says is probably true. i know walmart had lots of problems when they opened stores in germany in 1997. by now they're all gone again.

	SillyStokey92:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 23:26 GMT	1 point
	I got 3, two UK (From the UK) and I German on a guess.

	toulousain:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 09:49 GMT	3 points
	9! I got the French ones obviously plus aldi which exists in France. I got Tesco, Metro and the Dutch one (i remembered as albert) thanks to my trips. Very tough quiz. I made only 1 on the US retailers...

	jereboam:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 14:35 GMT	2 points
	Got 8 - very annoyed about E LeClerc - I was convinced it was De Clerc. However, I just remembered that was actually the name of my accountant of a few years back.

	Michael:	Dec 10th, 2008 at 12:50 GMT	3 points
	I happen to work for the big Swedish home furnishings company that was mentioned. The key difference between us and those on this list is the number of brands in the stable. Metro group, for example, has two electronics retail brands in Germany alone, not to mention loads of other brands (and loads of locations all over the place). It's also tricky because a lot of these holding companies actually operate many different brands in different markets ... if total IKEA Group revenue was counted (which is not publicly published), rather than just retail sales, I should think that we would be well-placed on the list. Ared: retail sales vs. revenue ... I believe this is an incorrect label for this column. Retail sales will make up the biggest chunk of these companies' revenue, but if you have some other stream of income, that would go towards revenue and not retail sales (franchise fees, distribution services or shopping centre development, for example). Ahold, for example, owns 73% of Schuitema (a grocery distributor), which in turn is the parent company of C1000 supermarkets, which operate on a franchise basis. Thus, retail sales in C1000 stores would show up as revenue for Ahold by way of wholesale purchases and franchise fees paid to their distribution subsidiary. Counting that money as "retail sales" would artificially inflate the sales of Albert Heijn supermarkets, essentially selling the same loaf of bread twice (once when it was sold at the C1000, once again when it hit the AH books). Some of the companies listed here also have substantial property portfolios and make a lot of money just in leasing space to other retailers ... for this exercise, I believe that revenue is actually what they're looking at. I'd like to see a similar list, but with operating margins included! :)

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	Lulu:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 11:10 GMT	1 point
	I can see Woolworths coming off this list soon...

	misa_chan:	Jun 2nd, 2009 at 08:47 GMT	0 points
	same LOL, it is kinda bust and no longer exists...

	y2jdilemma:	Jul 29th, 2009 at 23:32 GMT	0 points
	There used to be a Carrefour around the corner from where I grew up. It only lasted a couple years. It caught a lot of slack from the unions of the American based supermarkets.

	JamTin:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 21:19 GMT	1 point
	I worked in a head office capacity in retail for 10 years and only got 10/20! very hard. @Lulu @ mis_chan, the Woolworths on this list is an Australian grocery & general goods retailer, a completely separate company to the UK bust one.

mvulimiri:

Feb 4th, 2010 at 03:50 GMT

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I have never heard of any of those...

	WKS:	Jun 16th, 2010 at 22:30 GMT	1 point
	Wow, as an American I only got Woolworths because my friend from AU worked there xD otherwise I have only even heard of maybe 3 others on this list =X very hard.

	uterfan:	Aug 7th, 2010 at 10:05 GMT	1 point
	maybe consider counting "Lidl" for "Schwarz Unternehmens"?

	chriskotx:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 05:57 GMT	1 point
	I've seen Carrefour in Mexico...but just once.

	bombdotcomb:	Jan 23rd, 2011 at 17:32 GMT	1 point
	i used to live in japan, and now i live in the states, but i have never ever seen an AEON anywhere! that's so weird.